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August 2018
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13	14	15 First Day of School	16 Students will obtain, evaluate and communicate information. Mystery Cube Activity	17 Students will obtain, evaluate and communicate information. Mystery Game Activity First Night's Homework Due by 9:00 PM - See GC
20 Students will present problems from summer assignments. Unit 1-Summer Assignment Topics Discourse-Primer Reading and Notes Due by 8:30 AM (GCR) Summer Assignment Due beginning of class.  Math Assignment will be turned in physically.  Everything else will be turned in online. HW: Uncertainties and Graphing Assignnment Due 8/21	21 Students will present problems from summer assignments and 8/20 homework. HW: Finish any unfinished HW from 8/20.  Due 8/22	22 Students will learn to use Logger Pro for graphical analysis. Meet in Library Computer Lab Solutions to Summer Assignment will be posted on GC. HW: Finish work from class.  Due 8/23	23 Students will do a group assignment to practice all of the targets for Unit 1. HW: Group Activity due by end of period or 8/24 at beginning of period.	24 Unit 1 Test: Sig Figs, Scientific Notation,  Uncertainties, Graphing, Summer Math Assignment HW: Thermal Questions/ Problems
27 Students will conduct Lab Investigation for Specific Heat. HW: Thermal Questions/ Problems	28 Students will conduct a Lab Investigation for Pressure and Volume. HW: Thermal Questions/ Problems	29 Students will present and discuss results Specific Heat and Pressure/ Volume Labs.  HW: 1.Thermal Questions/ Problems 2. Abbreviated Lab Write-Up Draft	30 Students will do peer reviews of abbreviated lab write-up drafts and will solve a group thermal assignment. HW: Final Abbreviated Lab Write-Up Due 8/31 by Midnight	31 Unit 2 Test: Thermal Physics HW: Final Abbreviated Lab Write-Up Due 8/31 by Midnight

SEPTEMBER 2018
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3 NO SCHOOL	4 Students will determine where 2 buggies will meet in a lab practicum. HW: Unit 1 Worksheet 6  - Finishing Constant Velocity Buggy Lab Due - must be posted to Google Classroom by 9:00 PM	5 Students will solve problems about position and velocity graphs in cooperative groups. QUIZ - Motion Maps/Graphing HW: Unit 1 Review	6 Students will determine where 2 buggies will meet in a lab practicum. Buggy Lab Practicum	7
10 Students will observe and investigate the motion of a disc rolling down an incline. HW: Ranking Assignment 9-11 (GC-due by 7:30 AM 9/13)	11 Students will observe and investigate the motion of a disc rolling down an incline.	12 Students will observe and investigate the motion of a disc rolling down an incline.	13 Students will report lab findings and develop models of the motion. HW: Unit 2 Worksheet 1(due 9/18-beginning of class)	14 NO SCHOOL
17 Students will predict and test different position, velocity and acceleration graphs. Unit 2 Worksheet 2 done in class today.	18 Students will predict different position, velocity and acceleration graphs. HW: Unit 2 Worksheet 3(due 9/20-beginning of class)	19 Students will present answers to homework and analyze motion in cooperative groups. HW: Unit 2 Worksheet 4 (due 9/21-beginning of class) Wheel/Ramp Lab Report Due on GC by Midnight	20 Students will present answers to homework and analyze motion in cooperative groups. Quiz - Unit 2 through Worksheet 3 HW: Unit 2 Worksheet 5 (due 9/22 and 9/25-beginning of class; different problems assigned in class)	21 Students will present answers to homework and analyze motion in cooperative groups. ** Freefall acceleration demos in class.
24 Students will present answers to homework and analyze motion in cooperative groups. Quiz - Interpreting and analyzing motion on a graph. HW: Unit 2 Review Helpful Link for Concept Help	25 Students will present answers to homework and analyze motion in cooperative groups.	26 TEST- UNIT 2	27 Students will work in cooperative groups to get a bowling ball through an obstacle course :) HW: Reading-Force Diagrams	28 Students will draw and label force diagrams. Group Quiz:  Freefall Motion HW: Unit 3 Worksheet 1

OCTOBER 2018
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1 Students will draw and label force diagrams. HW: Unit 3 Worksheet 2	2 Students will find the relationship between force and mass in lab. Lab Purpose: To find a graphical and mathematical relationship between the force on an object by the Earth and mass for that object when that object is at rest with balanced forces. HW:  Check GC for Vector Practice Assignment	3 Students will find the relationship between force and mass in lab. Quiz: Force Diagrams HW: Unit 3 Worksheet 3	4 Students will calculate answers to questions using relationships in force diagrams. Quiz: Quantitative Force Diagrams HW: Unit 3 Worksheet 4 Answers to Workseet 2 and 3 Detailed solution to Worksheet 3 #7 Answers to quiz in class	5 Students will calculate answers to questions using relationships in force diagrams. HW: Unit 3 Review Static Forces Lab Due Tuesday Night, 10/10 by midnight on Google Classroom
8 Students will calculate answers to questions using relationships in force diagrams. Quiz: Quantitative Force Diagrams (we will grade this in class) **Mrs. Draughon will be available after school for test preparation help.	9 TEST-UNIT 3	10 College and Career Day	11 Students made corrections to their Unit 3 Test and prepared for an additional assessment on 10/13.	12 Students took an additional assessment on Unit 3 to help students master the material.
15 Students will investigate the relationships between force and mass and force and acceleration for a modified atwood device. HW: Elevator Lab elevator-cues elevator-1 elevator-2	16 Students will investigate the relationships between force and mass and force and acceleration for a modified atwood device.	17 Students will solve problems using Newton's Second Law.	18 Students will solve problems using Newton's Second Law. HW: Unit 4 Worksheet 1 Elevator Lab Due at the beginning of class.	19 Students will solve problems using Newton's Second Law. HW: Unit 4 Worksheet 2 HW: Unit 4 Worksheet 3  (#1 only)
22 Students will solve problems using Newton's Second Law. HW: Unit 4 WS 3  (#2-#4) HW: Unit 4 WS 4 (#1-#2)	23 Students will solve problems using Newton's Second Law. Quiz: Second Law HW: Unit 4 WS 4 (#3-#5)	24 Students will solve problems using Newton's Second Law. Lab Demo - Friction HW: Unit 4 Worksheet 5	25 Students will solve problems using Newton's Second Law Quiz: Quantitative Net Force HW: Unit 4 Review HW: Unit 5 Worksheet 1	26 Students will investigate 2D Motion and solve 2D Motion Problems. HW: Unit 5 Worksheet 2 Unbalanced Forces Lab Due on GC by midnight Wednesday, 11/1
29 Students will solve 2D Motion Problems.	30 TEST-UNIT 4	31 Students will solve 2D Motion Problems.

MARCH 2019
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				1 Students will discuss induction and conduction in cooperative groups. Homework: Unit 12 Worksheet 3
4 Students will present answers to Worksheet 3 and will begin the EField Activity Homework:  Mapping the Electric Field	5 Students will compare their mapped electric fields and will work the Phet investigation. Phet Link Periods 1,2,3,6 IB/AP CAASPP Testing	6 Students will work on Worksheet 4 and 5 in cooperative groups. Homework:  Electric Fields with PhET Periods 6,5,4,1 IB/AP CAASPP Testing	7 Students will compare their mapped electric fields and will work the Phet investigation. Homework:  Electric Fields with PhET Periods 2,3,4,5 IB/AP CAASPP Testing	8 Students will work on Worksheet 4 and 5 in cooperative groups. Homework: Unit 12 Worksheet 4 Homework: Unit 12 Worksheet 5 Quiz Electric Field Lines Notes Worksheet 5 #1 Solution Knotts Field Trip Forms Due No Later Than Today
11 Students will prepare for the Knotts Field Trip with a lab activity. Materials for Knotts: Inclinometer, Accelerometer, Pencil, Measuring Tape or Measured String, Stopwatch	12 KNOTT'S FIELD TRIP!!! IA Final Due By 7:30 AM	13 Students will present answers to Worksheets 4 and 5 and reach concensus on answers.  Students will also whiteboard solutions to the quiz from 3/9.	14 Students will take notes on electricity and magnetism.  Homework: Worksheet 6 (1-9)	15 Students will take notes on electricity and magnetism.  Quiz Homework: Worksheet 6 (10-23); Worksheet 7 Knotts Labs Due
18	19	20	21	22 TEST-UNIT 12 Students will have a review packet to work on over Spring Break in order to be prepared for the Final Exam and to begin the final review preparation for the AP Physics 1 Exam (also good for IB SL Exam).  I encourage using a published prep book to review for the AP Physics 1 Exam/IB SL Exam, but this is also a good source for review material.  Khan Academy also has excellent resources for reviewing. Unit Organizer Review Workbook - This is more than I can print for each student. Spring Break Assignment is listed on Google Classroom!!
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